September 16, 2009: Mini/First Observing Report

Eric Ayres

Well I setup my scope in the backyard and decided to do some observing with my new Nagler and Panoptic eye pieces, man was I not disappointed!!! I first went looking for M15 found with the binocs first and then pointed my 10" f/5.6 dob at it and dang it was awesome!!! It has been too long... Anyway I started with the 24mm pano and the stars started to resolve so I went to the 13mm Nagler and wow it just kept getting better. The atmosphere at zenith or close to it was very good so I decided to go to the 7mm Nagler and I could resolve a lot of stars, so I then decided to barlow the 7 and see what I got. I only have a parks 2x barlow so I think that brings the power with the 7mm to about 400x for my scope, anyway M15 filled the entire 82deg FOW!!! The stars just popped out, it was fantastic! I then went over to start looking for M27, so I went back down to the 27 pano and started searching, well about 5 minutes later I found it. It was very dim, I assume because of the light pollution so I decided to use my old lumicon OIII and it just jumped out!!! I decided again to go to the 13mm with the OIII and I was not disappointed, it was brilliant as Ivor would put it...LOL Anyway I checked out the double double real quick near Vega and also checled out Vega again with the 24 pano, again it gave me that very 3d look, don't laugh just try it, I am telling you it is very nice!!! Anyway I decided I would try to find NGC7331 and searched for it for a while but never could find it. It was getting late around 11pm so I decided to call it a night and pack it in. So that is my first "observing" report...